Join the Unstoppable Frankie Picasso and my ‘guest’ co host Wendy Allyn, this Monday, February 8th for another Frankie and Johnny Radio show, at 8:00 pm est, www.blogtalkradio.com/frankie–johnny.. Johnny “I am at Toastmasters” Collin will be returning in a few months after he finishes his self improvement courses..:)
Tonight we have an incredible line up of artists to introduce to you so hang on to your hats because we will be travelling from Atlantic Canada to meet Chris Gill, over to the Oklahoma, home of the Cherokee Indians to meet Monica Taylor and then slip through the Texas Pan handle down into Austin, Texas to catch up with The Real Bill Lewis.
BUT FIRST.. meet Wendy Allyn.. 
Wendy is a singer/songwriter that I met through the F & J show with Kevan Christine and co. I can’t exactley remember how we came to correspond but correspond we did. I found Wendy to be fascile of mind and an extraordinarily talented writer. During the process we have developed a growing respect for one another and this is how she came to be the next co host of the show.
Wendy is California born, Oklahoma grown, and her songs combine the stable and sturdy traits of a prairie farmer with a breezy west coast attitude.
I already told you she is a great writer so it should comes as no surprise that Wendy’ is an amazing storyteller and her medium is songwriting. She runs the gamut of writing about the human experience, everything from family ties thru social social issues, and like the great folks singers before her, Wendy is able to bring her characters to life. She draws these lyrical pictures through succint composite sketches of characters are as memorable as her hummable melodies. She takes universal experiences, describes them with clarity and originality, and creates songs that rise above the common denominator of those experiences.
Wendy is currently in the process of recording her second album, to be released Spring 2010. This album titled “Windmills & Daffodils” is a culmination of life experiences from and about Oklahoma, a place she calls home no matter where music and life takes her.
In 2009, Wendy quit her fulltime job and began redirecting her energy and creative talent in order to focus fulltime on songwriting/performing, building community with other musicians and connecting to the spirit inside that “thinks with melodies and writes with conscience and truth”. Her goal is simple: to be true to herself and to connect with like-minded individuals where together through music, we can hopefully make this world just a little sweeter.
Chris Gill
A native of Corner Brook, Newfoundland, Chris Gill started performing and writing music at a young age. His music career started as a drummer, then lead singer, in bands that performed throughout Newfoundland. He nurtured a solo career with the release of numerous singles throughout the years, and his debut CD, Tell Me How which was released in 2003, received an ECMA nomination for Country Album of the Year. Chris has resided in Truro, Nova Scotia for nearly 20 years.
MONICA TAYLOR
She’s the red dirt girl from Oklohoma, blue grass lady and Cherokee maiden. She’s played with The bluegrass and folk band The Wayfarying Strangers that she played and sang with, played Jimmy Lafave’s Musicians Reunion Jam one night…The Red_Dirt Rangers, Tom Skinner, Greg Jacobs, Randy Pease, The Medicine Show… and of course, Jimmy LaFave. Cedar Hammock with Brett, Kurt Neilson, and Karen Knust play and sing with Don Morris (guitar, bass, songwriter), Jared Tyler (guitar, dobro, mandolin,songwriter) and Nancy Kamm (fiddle)
and Today she plays solo. She also is part of the Cherokee Maidens, Robin Macy, Monica Taylor and Jennifer Petterson. They make up this tight harmony trio in the McKinney Sisters style who sang with The Texas Playboys and The Andrew Sisters
THE REAL BILL LEWIS
The Real Bill Lewis is a singer, songwriter, guitar player, pianist, playwright, novelist, and musician’s musician. You can find him jamming with the stellar hill country musicians who show up for his regular gig under the trees in Luckenbach, Texas, leading the danceable antics of the Stoneyridge Playboys (along with Will Owen Gage, Chris Adams, and Doug Davis), or touring the vicinity with his solo troubadour act.Whether he is crooning songs from his folk opera about addictions both legal and illegal or stunning the audience by accommodating most any request they can throw to the stage, his voice, phrasing, and musical originality is always unmistakably Bill Lewis. The Real Bill Lewis’ past and current gigs include The Blue Door (Oklahoma City), Alice’s Restaurant (opening for Arlo Guthrie), Hondo’s on Main (Fredericksburg), Silver Creek (Fredericksburg), Luckenbach, Poor David’s Pub (Dallas), Oma’s Secret Garten at Gruene, Billy Bob’s Texas, Lajitas Resort, and Riposa Wine Bar (Spring Branch) . Bill has opened for or shared the bill with Billy Joe Shaver, Asleep at the Wheel, Arlo Guthrie, Hank Williams, Jr., Bruce Robison, Michael Martin Murphy, John Anderson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ernest Tubb, Joe Ely, Leon Rausch, The Glaser Brothers, Faron Young, Sammi Smith, Tracy Nelson, and Grandpa Jones, to name a few
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